The FBI has announced that no charges will be recommended against presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in the seemingly endless investigation into her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary of State.

FBI Director James Comey made the announcement at a press conference Tuesday. While Comey called Clinton and her staff's handling of classified information "extremely careless," he said there was no indication they knowingly attempted to skirt the law.

"Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case," Comey said of legal action against the presumptive Democratic nominee.

"From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.

"Eight of those chains contained information that was 'top secret' at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained 'secret information' at the time; and eight contained 'confidential' information, which is the lowest level of classification," the FBI director said.

Comey also said Clinton should have realized that what she and her staff were doing was inappropriate.

"There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton's position... should have known that an unclassified system was no place for [sensitive] conversation," he said.